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Norm

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  1. On 10/30/2018 at 4:00 PM, KyleK29 said:

     

    As a tip, they added a FocusWindow hotkey in version .33. If you give the montage (right click title -> config -> name) a title, you can then set focus before executing the webpage hotkey.

    Example: Montage window title: MyMontageA

    FocusWindow MyMontageA; https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=%SYMB%

     

     

    A huge thank you for posting on this. I use the Finviz hotkey dozens of times a day and half the time have had to type the symbol manually because of a dead page. This is really helpful!


  2. On 10/7/2018 at 9:35 AM, QiRa said:

    I am a woman and have a few female friends who have traded over the years, some very successfully with high 6 figure incomes. I sometimes find the online trading community in general to be too bro-y and struggle with how male oriented even the metaphors and terms are. 

    We try to keep the bro talk to a minimum, as we have quite a few female members. Let us know if it is ever out of hand.


  3. Hey, JayR and welcome! Glad to have you here. I'm in North Dallas by Addison. I'm going to push hard to get something set up soon. Been sick for a couple days, so I'll get back at it next week.

    Be sure to subscribe to this thread so you will get alerts when it is posted to.


  4. I think much of what I would consider extra education has already been posted above, so I won't revisit that.

    I can add one thing that I've learned a TON from: Bad trades, specifically reviewing them. Not journaling, or even rereading a journal, but just take a screen shot of the chart on a bad trade. Go back and look at it several hours later, or the next morning, or that weekend. I promise you'll look at it and say "What the hell was I thinking? What did I see there?". It is really eye opening.

    Screen time, practice, and education will make you capable of finding good trades; learning to avoid the bad trades will make you profitable.

    It is correct that I don't recap my bad trades and rarely share for public consumption, I try to show the things that work and reinforce that. I'll be the first to admit I'm green (new) in this game and no guru or wizard. I have plenty of rough days. This is a journey and I'm much closer to the beginning than the end, just trying to enjoy the process and become a little bit better of a trader each day! Doing recaps is part of my education process as well and knowing they will be seen by the public makes my live trading more disciplined because of that...nobody wants to look like a fool.

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  5. We might have to check, but a little bit down the page (same one you quoted), it says this is transaction fees:

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    Transaction Fees
    (Stocks, ETF, Warrants, Rights, Voting Trust Certificates) USD 0.0000130 * Value of Aggregate Sales
    FINRA Trading Activity Fee USD 0.000119 * Quantity Sold 8

    The tiered plan says:

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    Our transparent Tiered pricing for stocks, ETFs (Exchange Traded Products, or ETPs) and warrants includes our low broker commission, which decreases depending on volume, plus exchange, regulatory, and clearing fees.

    I take that as the fixed plan *includes* exchange fees and tiered does not. The transaction fees quoted are extremely small, almost a rounding error.


  6. On 7/1/2018 at 6:56 AM, Lee W said:

    To elect MTM, you have to do so when filing the prior year taxes. The last part in this link tells it:

    https://greentradertax.com/trader-tax-center/trader-tax-status/section-475-mtm-accounting/

    Basically, for tax year 2018 (you’ll file taxes in early 2019), you would’ve had to have made the election with your filing by April 17th, 2018 (when you filed your 2017 taxes).  

    So, I've learned this is not so. You can, in good faith, elect 475 MTM accounting later in the year if you can show that you didn't know better.

    It is essentially a extension that you file with the 475 request that says you're doing it as soon as possible and not because it helps you retroactively.

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  7. Lee, thank you for taking the time to get this done. Your conference calls and work with DAS has saved time for all of us. What was one of the most monotonous tasks of the day, creating-saving-loading lines, has become so much easier. I know this is saving me at least 5-10 minutes a morning, every morning. Thanks again for spearheading this and making sure that it was done correctly!

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